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Originally Posted by Mity2
no matter what/how coating is, if you don't take care of it, it CAN rust.
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just FYI, the tennifer is not a coating. that black stuff is not the tennifer. that can wear completely away, and it still won't rust under anything close to normal conditions.
tennifer is a cyanide bath that actually alters the metallurgy of the first few microns of the metal itself (making it harder and very, very resistant to rust).
however, since the tennifer process only effects the first few microns of the metal, if you actually wear away enough of the metal, the tennifer will be gone, and the exposed non-tennifered metal will rust.
it's possible that that is why the glock in your pictures rusted. it had already been beat to hell, including shooting it with a .22, which probably gouged it to the point that some of tennifered metal was gone in a few spots exposing metal which had not been effected by the tennifer process. then, those spots rusted and the rust stained other portions of the gun as it ran over the gun and dried.
but, yes, you are correct. it is possible to get a glock to rust a bit if you try really hard.